A man was found dead in Australia, a cryptic note in his pocket. Who was the Somerton Man?
His pockets held no ID, and his labels were removed. The note read 'Tamam Shud', meaning 'ended' in Persian.
On December 1, 1948, an unidentified man was found dead on Somerton Beach, South Australia. He had no identification, all labels had been removed from his clothes, and his dental records matched no known individual. A concealed pocket in his pants held a scrap of paper reading 'Tamam Shud', a phrase found on the last page of a collection of Persian poems called 'The Rubaiyat'. Despite intense investigations and public appeals, the man's identity and cause of death remain unknown.
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